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WASHINGTON: Microsoft has stepped back from the brink. That's the news from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom where just a week ago the software firm was vigorously defending the entwining of Internet Explorer with Windows 95. Now it has pledged to separate the two, avoiding the risk of a $1 million-a-day fine...
...Microsoft has agreed to immediately make available the most up-to-date, fully functional version of Windows 95 without forcing computer manufacturers to takes its browser as well," said Joel Klein, the trust-busting assistant attorney general. "This will increase consumer choice and will also send precisely the right message to the market...
...Gates may have retreated from this battle, but he hasn't surrendered in the war: Coming next, on April 21, is Microsoft's appeal against the judge's unbundling order...
...Microsoft Takes it on the Chin In the other ongoing courtroom drama, Microsoft has backed down ? the software firm will unbundle Internet Explorer after all. But Bill Gates is still fighting. TIME Online's special: Target: Microsoft...
Promises of higher speed on the Web may come and go, but the Digital Subscriber Line is one you'd better believe in. Why? Because when the combined forces of Compaq, Intel, Microsoft and the Baby Bells join forces on a product, and say they'll have it in stores by Christmas, you can bet the bank you'll be unwrapping it this December. It makes commercial sense for all concerned: "Microsoft and Intel's business depends on increasing bandwith," says TIME senior writer and tech expert Joshua Ramo, "and the margins in the phone business suck...